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Remember Alexei Anatolievich Navalny? He’s the Russian opposition activist who ran afoul of Vlad and his charming crew, and would up hospitalized from the effects of a nasty nerve agent, Novichok. He’s lucky to be alive.
\nAssassination attempts like this don’t go unnoticed, and there’s more than sufficient means, motive, and opportunity to point fingers. Some investigative skullduggery has resulted in a confession.<\/p>\n
Liberal Civvy (LC) sends.<\/p>\n
December 21, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n -Bellingcat and its partners reported that Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB) was implicated in the near-fatal nerve-agent poisoning of Alexey Navalny on 20 August 2020. The report identified eight clandestine operatives with medical and chemical\/biological warfare expertise working under the guise of the FSB\u2019s Criminalistics Institute who had tailed Alexey Navalny on more than 30 occasions since 2017. At least three of these operatives were in the close vicinity of Navalny near the time of his poisoning. Bellingcat can now disclose that it and its investigative partners are in possession of a recorded conversation in which a member of the suspected FSB poison squad describes how his unit carried out, and attempted to clean up evidence of, the poisoning of Alexey Navalny. The inadvertent confession was made during a phone call with a person who the officer believed was a high-ranking security official. In fact, the FSB officer did not recognize the voice of the person to whom he was reporting details of the failed mission: Alexey Navalny himself. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is the ruthlessness a Biden administration would deal with. Read the entire article here: Bellingcat.com<\/a> and more here: CNN.com<\/a>
\n-During his year-end press conference on Thursday of last week, Russian president Vladimir Putin did not deny Bellingcat\u2019s findings, which detailed how these FSB operatives had been tailing Navalny, including on his trip to Tomsk. However, the Russian president claimed \u2013 without presenting evidence \u2013 that this was due to alleged cooperation between Navalny and \u201cUnited States intelligence agencies\u201d. Putin also denied that the FSB had any role in his poisoning, and stated that \u201cif [the FSB] wanted to, they would have taken their job to the end\u201d.<\/strong> He did not explain why a suspect would need to be surveilled by officers with chemical-warfare and medical backgrounds, nor why these agents communicated with leading Russian experts in nerve toxins in the days and hours before Navalny\u2019s poisoning, as disclosed by Bellingcat.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThanks, LC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"